Paper and art of producing same.



No. 664,743 I Patented Dec. 25, I900.

' P. MAKE.

I PAPER AND ART OF PRODUCING SAME.

(Application filed Feb, 2, 1900.)

(No Model.)

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFIcE.

PHILIPP HAKE, OF HOBOKEN, NEW JERSEY.

PAPER AND ART OF PRODUCING SAME.

EPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 664,743, dated December25, 1900.

Application filed February 2, 1900. Serial No. 3,718. (Specimens) T0(tZZ whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, PHILIPP HAKE, a citizen of the United States, and aresident of Hoboken, in the county of Hudson and State of New Jersey,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Paper and Art ofProducing Same, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to the production of highly ornamental paper to bewritten or printed upon or for other uses, and has for one object toornament paper in a plurality of shades or colors and by a has-reliefdesign, of which the relief sharply coincides with one color and theintaglio with another color, the paper being simultaneously finishedwith a surface suitable to be Written or printed 11 pon or for otherpurposes.

A further object is to simultaneously treat opposite sides of the paperto produce upon the one surface relief and intaglio corresponding,respectively, to intaglio and relief on the other surface and to producethe variations in coloring, as before described.

The invention involves in addition to the advantages of a cheap andeffective process for producing a high grade of goods the advantage ofaffording an effective method of shading or figuring by varying thesurface of the intaglio and relief, which correspondingly affects thedensity of the color and produces highly-ornamental effects in shading.

In carrying out my invention I employ, preferably, a pair of gravenrollers, between which the paper is passed under considerable pressurefor the purpose of producing upon its respective sides a pattern inrelief, or I may employ one graven roller with a smooth roller, or agraven roller passing over a suitable platen or bed. The surface orsurfaces of the paper thus prepared are then subjected to pressure undera hard smooth coloring-roller, which simultaneously evens up the reliefportions of the pattern, so as to clearly define the limits thereof, andapplies coloring-matter to the relief portions thus defined,with theresult of producing a clear and sharp pattern in color. This step in theprocess may take place simultaneously on both sides of the paper byduplicating the coloring-roller.

The process above described will result in coloring the paper with asharply defined raised pattern of Whatever color is applied to theroller, with a ground of the original color of the paper. If theoriginal color is white, then the ground or intaglio portions of thepattern will be white. If it be desired to have the intaglio portions ofa color or shade other than the original color of the paper and yet incontrast with the color of the relief portions of the pattern, this isaccomplished by treating the Whole surface of the paper to the lightershade of coloring previous to embossing it or passing it through thegraven rollers and then applying the darker shade to the relief portionsby the hard coloringrroller.

It will be seen from the foregoing that I have not only produced animprovement in the art of ornamenting paper, but I have obtained a newarticle of manufacture in the paper itself. Paper produced in accordancewith my improvement has a clearly-defined raised pattern with the reliefand intaglio in contrasting shades or colors and with the relief evenedup without destroying the relief design and colored to produce a newwriting and printing surface.

While any suitable arrangement of embossing and printing surfaces may beemployed in carrying out my invention, two forms of apparatus aresuggested in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a viewrepresenting means for treating both sides of the paper simultaneously;and Fig. 2 is a similar view representing means for treating but oneside of the paper, the effect in each case being shown on agreatly-exaggerated scale.

Referring to Fig. l, A A represent a. pair of graven embossing-rollersin which the relief on one corresponds to the intaglio on the other, andB B are a pair of hard smooth evening and coloring rollers which receivecoloring-matter from applying-rollers b and which imprint the color uponthe relief portion of the pattern embossed by the rollers AA, at thesame timeevening the relief portions of the pattern and imparting afinished surface thereto. Inasmuch as the rollers B B have smoothsurfaces, it is obvious that the colorin g-matter contained upon theirsurfaces will come in contact with only the raised portion of theembossed design. The coloring thus imparted to the paper will thereforesharply correspond in outline to the relief desire to secure by LettersPatent:

1. The art of ornament-ing paper with intaglio and relief designs ofcontrasting color, by forming upon each side thereof a raised designcorresponding to the intaglio of the.

other side, and simultaneously evening and coloring the raised portionswithout destroying the relief,and prod ucingasurface thereon.

2. As a new article of manufacture, writing-paper having upon itssurface designs of intaglio and relief of contrasting colors, and

with the relief portions evened to provide a suitable surface.

3. As a new article of manufacture, writing-paper provided on both sideswith surface ornamentation comprising relief and intaglio designs ofcontrasting colors, with the relief of one side corresponding inposition to theintaglio of the other side, and the raised portions ofboth sides being evened to produce writing or printing surfaces.

Signed at New York, in the county and State of New York, this 30th dayof December, 1899.

' PHILIPP HAKE.

Witnesses: I

WILLIAM B. CRooKER, BENJAMIN O. BRADLEY.

